cognition
n. uncountablen. the mental process of thinking, learning, and understanding things. It includes everything your brain does to take in information and make sense of the world.
n. the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Reading every day helps improve your memory and overall cognition.
As people get older, they often do puzzles and play games to keep their cognition sharp and prevent memory loss.
The study investigates how bilingualism affects human cognition, specifically examining whether speaking two languages delays the onset of age-related mental decline.
From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
Uncountable when referring to the general mental process; countable in psychology to denote a specific thought or perception.